Corporations have a history of using drugs (in this case: caffine and sugar) and propaganda aimed at niave youthful sentiment to create lifelong loyal consumers.

So which specific policy instituted by the white house caused this downturn in permanent employment according to your view of the world?

There is no "downturn" in permanent unemployment. Just the opposite, in fact. The ranks of the permanently unemployed have grown under Trump.

Your onigiri racks firring.

Everyone I know that has a pickup truck actually uses it for a pickup truck; sorry don't live in your world. Not sure what you are talking about, the vast majority of F150s have boxes plenty big enough for an 8x4 sheet, I don't care what the buyer actually ends up using it for. To me with a shorter box is a much less functional pickup that may work for many but not all that a pickup does.

Don't forget to remind the stupid not to be stupid. ;)

Hint: if people don't find your jokes amusing in person, they're not going to on here...

No, they don't. They do when they are arresting you, and they should identify themselves when they are serving a warrant or when entering a building (this helps avoid people being shot). But during an investigation or undercover? No, they don't.

I can't blame Alex Stamos (former CISO of Facebook) for getting out. Their job looks like it will be just more and more hand holding and babysitting, who wants to do that for years on end. It reminds me of the occasional request for reports on "how much time X is spending on the internet" from managers. We usually reply with something like, we don't do that, you have to talk to HR. Honestly, if X isn't doing their job, document it and fire them.

Exactly this.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/re...

But the US is in war with China at the moment.

You know, I'm going to disagree. At least that, while definitely stupid and generally awful, would at least possibly do the job it was designed to do.

This advertising stunt, won't be seen by a single person on the ground. For one, the majority of people live in cities and our skies are too bright as it is. And even if you live in the darkest skies, you would have to know exactly when to look for the ad passing you by to see it. There is a 95% chance you would miss it even if you went significantly out of your way to go find it.

So basically pollute the sky with a freaking advertisement... and it's against prejudices towards gamers. Why the fuck should this happen?

Considering that both PETA and the NRA are run this way (astroturfing organizations deliberately masquerading as grassroots with heavy emphasis on complete incompetence), it would make perfect sense.

You might want to have a word with SpaceX
https://fcc.report/IBFS/SES-LI...

They only take reviews from purchases into account when sorting by rating. At this point people started randomly receiving packages because the seller was buying items and having them shipped to valid addresses in order to game the system.

Apparently the difference between the #1 spot and the #2 spot is pretty drastic when it comes to sales. They can spend a few thousand dollars on items and push themselves into the number 1 spot and easily cover the cost. All of this can be done with your "one purchase one review" suggestion. This will be a game of cat and mouse until the end of time.

It's going to get hacked... and images of penises, Nazi, Mohammed, and shit will rain from the heavens.

It will be a good fun year... or month...

"Whatever you want them to mean."

That's absurd, We have dictionaries for a reason and while definitions do change a bit between publisher they should all be similar enough for a conversation on the internet for such common terms,

Apparently you missed why Musk built Tesla?

So as much as you hate Musk and Tesla, give some credit where credit is due.

His plan all along was to push the major automotive companies to go electric. It looks like he succeeded.

Bayrob was founded by a guy named Rob, who liked to sit at the bay.

Arthur C. Clarke beat them to this: read the short story called "Watch This Space", where almost exactly this was performed ... by a soda company ... except they did it on the moon. In 1956.

It was amusing (and pretty good) as a sci-fi short story. It's terrifying as "reality."

Wasn't it The Merchants of Venus by Fred Pohl?

Anyone have a can of Coffiest they can lend me?

So it was rigged and that is the basis of your defense of company stores as a benevolent policy?

I first learned about libertarian ideals from some of the early Internet users/frequent message posters. IMO, the computer-savvy have always been a bastion of libertarian thought.

I think you have an awful lot of younger people entering the tech workforce, now, who really haven't even given politics that much consideration. For them, it's about "hating Orange man Trump" because that's an easy bandwagon to get on.... and after that? You hear a lot from our "Democratic Socialists" about promises they'll solve their anxiety over money and how they'll pay for things like big student loans or health insurance costs. So they latch on to that platform.

Really though? I think the libertarian aspects of the Internet stemmed more from the vision early users had of it being this empowering form of communication. All of a sudden, you could talk to someone on the other side of the planet, just as easily (and inexpensively!) as talking to your neighbor next door who got online. Once you're no longer tethered to a long distance phone provider who billed you by the minute for a voice call, based on which country you dialed -- you have a new type of freedom. And that ALSO enabled the ability for anyone to become their own online publisher -- producing content that was in reach of any Internet user, the world over.

The fact that some of the tech businesses out there exploit their workforce doesn't mean technology ITSELF helped prove libertarian ideas a failure!

I think at least in America, we need to remember that our government is not and has never been libertarian in nature. The closest it's ever come were a couple of Republican presidents (like Ronald Reagan) who made some very libertarian quotes -- but didn't really do a lot of very libertarian things, politically, to change the system in place.

It's insane that you believe the right to self defense is dystopian.

I'm not so sure that is the case. You can be charged with a Federal crime stealing mail out of a mailbox. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to test this theory anyway.

Not impossible. Merely challenging. You can engineer a lot of things, design to resist damage from space junk. The problem is it adds cost and mass making it much more expensive. But if you are determined you can always make it.

Depends on what you mean by "work". The point of the war on drugs was never to reduce drug use but to give the Nixon administration and excuse to spy and arrest people.

Because the number of "expensive ones" is a massive, latent, hidden time bomb. We have known the impacts of refined grain and oil and sugar of the human body since the 1970s. The bomb is exploding right now. Children getting diabetes. Sixty year Olds on a ton of prescription drugs. Poor people living on soda and processed sweet cakes. Protien obsession and paleo diets that encourage cultish consumption of artery hardening animal products. The answer has nothing to do with money. Unless the answer is allowing this to continue and trying to deal with it in the emergency room.